• index@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Did you read the article? One of their really own says they are to blame for the hellscape!

    Valve’s implementation of its in-game stores and the Steam marketplace, Varoufakis says, emerged from a need to balance monetization with a fear that if the company didn’t create its own systems for exchange between players, they would “take it outside”

    They are a for profit company, they most likely support linux so that people don’t “take it outside” their useless proprietary launcher.

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      3 months ago

      “…their useless proprietary launcher.” Steam is by far the least useless launcher out there. Steam has so many incredibly useful features such as remote play together, community controller layouts, the workshop, cloud saves, family library sharing, etc. Not to mention that they continue to keep adding new features that no other launcher is even close to having such as the new game recording feature that is currently in beta.

      Sure, Valve charge a pretty decent amount to game developers for the sale of a game, but they provide a load of features in exchange.

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          3 months ago

          You’re right, I don’t, but it sure as hell makes it a lot easier to keep the hundreds of games that I have purchased organized. Not to mention I don’t have to manually keep each of the 95 games I currently have installed updated or have to worry about backing up game saves or having them available across multiple different devices with zero effort from myself.

          Steam isn’t perfect, but it does add a massive amount of value for consumers like myself who take advantage of a lot of the different features that are mostly unique to Steam as a platform.

          Also, I believe when a developer releases a game on Steam they are given the opportunity to use Steamworks, which provides a lot of potentially useful tools for a game deceloper.

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            3 months ago

            You’re right, I don’t, but it sure as hell makes it a lot easier to keep the hundreds of games that I have purchased organized.

            You are trading your privacy and freedom over your disorganization and lazyness

            Steam isn’t perfect, but

            Reddit has many of the fancy comsumer features you seem to love perhaps you should go back there

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      3 months ago

      they most likely support linux so that people don’t “take it outside”

      I’m amazed you’re attempting to make “company supports platform desired by customers” sound like a bad thing.

      their useless proprietary launcher.

      You should make it less obvious you have axe to grind, because this statement shows that your opinion isn’t really valid about PC gaming. I’d love to see you find a launcher that offers everything that Valve’s “useless” launcher.

      I’ll wait.

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          3 months ago

          I’d love to see you find a launcher that offers everything that Valve’s “useless” launcher.

          https://libregaming.org/play-libre-games/

          L. O. L. When asked for a launcher that is feature comparable, you give me that?

          I’ve played a few of the libre games linked there. I’ll stick with steam, thanks but no thanks.

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            3 months ago

            I’ve played a few of the libre games linked there. I’ll stick with steam, thanks but no thanks.

            no problems, you can play these games anytime you want, you don’t need a proprietary launcher to run these